Machiavelli speaks of the prince, while Hobbes speaks of the sovereign, that is a kind of impersonal or in Hobbes' language, artificial power created out of a contract.

马基雅维利探讨君主，而霍布斯则探讨主权，这算是不受个人感情影响的，在霍布斯的说法里，君主的权力是由契约产生的。

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And you will find, as we will in the next few weeks, the Southern political power by the 1850s and 1860s is really no longer in Virginia, or even South Carolina, it's out in the Mississippi Valley.

在接下来的几周课中你们会发现,截至十九世纪五六十年代,弗吉尼亚,南卡罗来纳州和密西西比河谷,已经不存在南方政权力量了

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What turns out to be the practical fact is that he who has the power and the will to do what he wants will be able to do so, and he who has not will be forced to suffer whatever the powerful impose on him.

事实上只有有能力及意愿,去做某事的人,才能最终做成某事,而没有能力或意愿的人则会因之,而遭受不幸

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By the way, after class, I'm more than happy to stay as long as needed to answer any questions you guys have or to talk about whatever issues you'd like to bring up, but probably what makes sense is for me to power down the computer and pack up and then we can stand out in the hallway and I can answer questions out there, that way the next class can get in and the instructor can work unimpeded.

顺便说一下,课后,我很乐意多待一会,来回答你们的问题,或者讨论一些你们提出的问题,但我最好是,把电脑关掉,收拾好东西,然后在走廊里来回答你们的问题,这样下节课才能照常进行,老师也能正常授课

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Zooey That thread of the mystical quality of language at its extreme of literary power is what I drew out of Franny and Zooey.

我所描述的Franny和,正是那种语言的神秘色彩，处于它极端的艺术感染力。

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